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The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast networkTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:49:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3By: White House Narrative On Libya All But Collapsed « Tarpon's Swamphttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/19/obama-official-yes-benghazi-was-a-terrorist-attack-and-there-are-indications-al-qaeda-was-involved-update-ringleader-released-from-gitmo-in-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-6285542
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:49:44 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6285542[...] That narrative hasn’t even lasted out the week. By Wednesday, officials in the US government began acknowledging that the so-called “riot” at the consulate in Libya had elements of planning and heavy [...]
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:00:12 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6281471[...] on Wednesday, the Obama administration admitted that it was a terrorist attack in Benghazi, rather than a spontaneous demonstration, but it was [...]
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:20:09 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6281365[...] on Wednesday, the Obama administration admitted that it was a terrorist attack in Benghazi, rather than a spontaneous demonstration, but it was [...]
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:37:59 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6280963I think the real question should be why did the State Dept and the Obama Admin lie to us for a week when everyone else seemed to know that this was a terrorist attack except them? Are they stupid or liars?
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:44:52 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6280259

Navy SEALs, even former ones under contract, as these two heroes apparently were, do not do VIP protection but, …

TXUS on September 19, 2012 at 8:40 PM

Not exactly the case. A couple members of SEAL Team 6 were tasked with protecting the ambassador to the Philippines in the ’90s. That was probably not the only such deployment.

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:16:52 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279690Reuters is reporting that the “protest” which subsequently developed into a heavy-weapons attack on the consulate was so small and insignificant as to hardly be noticeable.

In effect, there never was a riot outside the consulate – it was a direct and full attack by armed forces with coordination. This is backed by the President al-Megaryef of Libya who stated there was no riot at all, just a straight-up full-scale military attack.

White House will deny there was a protest at all and that they never mentioned one in 5…4…3…2…

Why has no one raised the possibility that rather than exploiting a protest, this group whipped up a protest as cover for a planned operation?

BKeyser on September 19, 2012 at 9:16 PM

“U.S. intelligence believes part of the motivation for launching the attack was a video from al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri that surfaced the night of Sept. 10, imploring Libyans to attack Americans in retribution for the U.S. drone strike that killed Libyan-born al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-Libi in June.”

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:43:29 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279245[...] Question: Why are we still focused on the question of whether the attack was “pre-planned” or “spontaneous” if we have good reason to think Al Qaeda was involved? It’s not like U.S. intelligence didn’t know that there are expert jihadis in the area; on the contrary, Benghazi is one of the jihadi-est places on Earth and has been so for years. More at Hot Air [...]
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:39:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279227Great. Gun walking in Libya.
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:29:30 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279195

Why has no one raised the possibility that rather than exploiting a protest, this group whipped up a protest as cover for a planned operation?

BKeyser on September 19, 2012 at 9:16 PM

Community organizing gone badass you mean ?

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:16:28 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279154Why has no one raised the possibility that rather than exploiting a protest, this group whipped up a protest as cover for a planned operation?
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:09:07 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279112Matt Olsen better get ready for some phone calls from Valerie Jarrett…he will need to clarify this by tomorrow.
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:07:53 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279105

Pretty soon they will be blaming the Republicans for murdering 4 Americans in Libya on 9-11

burrata on September 19, 2012 at 9:03 PM

Damned if you don’t just know that was their very first reaction, “How do we blame this on the Republicans”…

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:04:41 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=219238#comment-6279091Call me kooky but here’s my theory about the blind sheikh.
According to Fox there were threats to the embassy in Cairo on Sept 9/10th that it would be burned down with people inside if the blind sheikh was not released. DHS sent out warnings.

At some point the Islamist in Cairo or some other embassy take American hostages.
What would Obama do to assure their release? Give them the blind sheikh. All pre-arranged of course.

I do not put anything past this administration.
Remember Obama basically did nothing when the Lockerbie bomber was released.

But, Team Obama certainly wouldn’t want it to be learned that we gave away weapons in an unauthorized war that ended up in AQ’s hands.

TXUS on September 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM

If I understand Team Obama correctly, they would want it to be known that they gave away weapons which killed Americans at the request and advice of …….McCain ,
then, leave it upto the Tingler and fluffers to get jiggy with the ” story”. Pretty soon they will beblaming the Republicans for murdering 4 Americans in Libya on 9-11

Rice is just the Ambassador to the UN, a messenger girl lying and spinning on Meet the Press. Hillary is responsible for all U.S. foreign affairs.

That is true. I never figured out why Rice was picked to carry the water for the administration’s failure. But let us not forget that Hillary is bullet proof. Not only does she have a following, her “husband” is carrying the water on the campaign trail for the rat-eared bastard with Democrats who hate Obama. She isn’t going to be fired. The ambassador to Libya is (obviously) dead.

Who do you hang this on that is sufficiently high enough in status?
Can’t blame the NATO military leadership when you’re pandering for the votes of servicemembers. Can’t overtly blame Lybia when you are claiming that your getting rid of their dictator was an unqualified success. Rice is like an ensign in a Star Trek episode.

Benghazi and its coverup is a shameful and deadly episode that has damaged our standing in the world and thrown away the lives of our citizens.

Our standing in the world was damaged almost four years ago when Obama went on his apology tour of terrorist nations and proclaimed our support of Israel was negotiable and that we would meet with our enemies without pre-conditions. This is a fruit of that labor.

Any honorable minister of state would be obliged to resign over such a debacle.

Bill or Hillary Clinton and honorable have rarely been used in the same sentence. She hates Obama but needed her campaign debt to be paid off. She wants him to be defeated for the opportunity to be the challenger against Mitt in 2016. Plus she’s already made it clear that she will not serve beyond 2012 and I seriously doubt that Obama will push to keep her in her job. IMO Hillary Clinton was an idiot to give up her very safe Senate seat.